G LOOM and anxiety as regards the Balkan situation marked the earlier part of the week, but writing on Friday we are able to record that there seems a reason- able prospect of...

of drawing the frontier lines between Bulgaria and. Servia and Bulgaria and Greece. In all probability the Vardar will be the dividing line. The Bulgarian frontier will end on...

a regulation affecting five underground mechanics, developed on Friday week to an alarming extent. The whole Reef became involved and other trades were drawn in. The whole of...

who can seldom watch white men practising violence or disregarding the law in any way without trying to imitate them. Some thousands of natives in the mines declared themselves...

failed, and failed because the Servians and the Greeks have shown a military strength and capacity much greater than was expected, and have, indeed, from the military point of...

done the only wise thing possible. She has appealed to the Tsar for his mediation at Belgrade and Athens, and he has accepted the task. Happily Russia is in a specially good...

of London), in Regent's Park, were opened by the Queen on Friday week. The change from the old dingy site in Baker Street is indeed remarkable. The new buildings, which were...

case.

held under the auspices of the West Islington Liberal and Radical Association, replied to Lord Lansdowne's latest speech. Lord Lansdowne, he said, had proposed that public...

folly of borrowing bit by bib—" there is nothing that puts up the price of money so much and depresses seaarity so ninth as a constant going to the market for your five and ten...

Mary, reviewed the two London divisions of the Territorial Force in Hyde Park. The King afterwards con- veyed to Sir A. E. Codrington, who was in command, his satisfaction with...

at Bristol. There was an enormous attendance, the King having chosen the first "shilling day" for his visit. In his reply to the address of the Lord Mayor the King spoke with...

will of the late Sir John Scott, on the ground that the large legacies to Lord and Lady Sackville were acquired by undue influence and fraud on the part of Lady Sackville, came...

colleagues have forbidden him to advocate nationalization, desires to dangle it before the eyes of an urban audience who, knowing nothing about the land, and forgetting what...

from Lord Hugh Cecil on the Marconi affair. "We are witnessing," he says, " a strange spectacle." Sir Rufus Isaacs and Mr. Lloyd George expressed regret for their...

the message which he telephoned to Leicester in support of the Liberal candidate at the by-election, and which was repudiated by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He explained that Mr....

the Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons for the second time. We will only say here that the third reading was passed by a majority of 109 (352-243). On Tuesday, after...

took part in the George Borrow celebrat ions, th e occasion being the handing over to the Corporation, by the Lord Mayor, of the title deeds of Borrow's house, which is to be...

issued, giving an account of the working of the Insurance Act during the past year. It describes the formation of the insurance fund of nearly £20,000,000, the machinery of...

so at the moment, weigh equally strongly with the Liberal Government after Home Rule is passed. Unless the Irish insist on Land Purchase passing before the third time of asking...

his temerity in attacking the Irish land purchase system. Tuesday's Times contained a long letter from Mr. William O'Brien denouncing Mr. Lloyd George in round terms for his...

a phrase from the inexhaustible magazine of Stevenson, there is something in Borrow after all; not so much as most people suppose, but still a good deal. Borrow may have been...

we have entered upon it, we should make a good job of Irish purchase and complete the establishment of a peasant pro- prietorship in Ireland. There is, however, something not a...

of the Liberal Land Committee will be communicated to the Government in September. The chief features of the new Liberal land policy are to be (1) security of tenure through the...

April 17th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 721—Friday week 72i.

THE HOME RULE DEBATE. I T would be difficult to produce a more striking example of impotence in debate than that displayed by the Liberal Party in the third reading of the Home...

W E are glad to note that Mr. Bonar Law in his speech, of which we must again express our unbounded admiration for its steadiness of tone and clearness of utterance, insisted...

Balkans have fairly flown at one another's throats, and the ferocity of the struggle is even greater than that of the war against Turkey. We see in a, flash how slender was the...

This report of the Public Accounts Committee must necessarily compel both parties to face the whole ques- tion of payment of members, and we sincerely hope that the Unionist...

W HEN a statesman dies before he has reached the allotted span of life, men speak of the blow to the country, regret work unfinished, or deplore the absence of a stalwart...

E VERY year more sailing yachts are fitted with a motor which is intended not to take the place of sails in ordinary circumstances but to get the vessel over a foul tide in...

" I F you can tear yourself away from town," wrote the satirist, nearly two thousand years ago, "you may get a little house and garden in the country for what a garret's rent is...

THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE BALKAN& [To TEE EDITOR 07 SUR " SPECTATOR...1 Sut,—Excessive enthusiasm for the triumphs of Balkan unity has been replaced in Western Europe by...

THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK. re.° THE EDITOR OF TUN " SPECTATOR:1 Srn,—When a Government falls into a decline its supporters are accustomed to take comfort by assuring themselves...

some rustic cottages with an old gentleman who made, if I rightly recall it, this remark : " Lord Palmerston once said that every cottage ought to have three things—a good oven,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR." j SIR,—May I suggest that the ideal cheaply constructed cottage is not altogether visionary, and that as regards a simple tenure equal to...

article on "The Cottage Problem" in the Spectator of July 5th entirely overlooked the chief reason for the high cost of cottages, or indeed of any building, which is the action...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I think the inequalities in the representation of different places in the United Kingdom revealed by the late census are of so startling...

SCLIITOR.'] SIR,—The 170th "Yearly Conference of the people celled Methodists, in the connexion established by the late Rev. John Wesley, A.M."—for so runs the legal title of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As you were so good as to publish a letter from me recently on the rights of the Greeks of Macedonia and Thrace, I hope you will allow...

Pro THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR:1 Srn,—Will you allow me to call attention to the proposed creation in Portugal of a Commission for the "Protection of Natives of the...

[To THE EDITOR 01 TIIR "SPECTATOR."] am tempted by the questions asked by Lord Cromer in hia review of Mr. Miller's book, "The Ottoman Empire," as to the causes of the military...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sin, — Your contributor "C.," writing in your issue of July 5th, deserves all our gratitude for his defence of classical teaching in...

a father I desire to thank you for " C.'s " essay on" The Future of the Classics" in your last issue. I do not want to go over the old ground, so I will not contest the point of...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOIt."] Sin,--Together, I feel sure, with all who have served with him, I cannot but feel disgusted with the savage attack recently made in the...

[To THE EDITOR OE TRE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—The writer of the article on Gray in the Spectator of July 5th is hardly justified in his criticism of Mr. Tovey for giving "non...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I was exceedingly surprised at a cutting enclosed in the correspondence columns of your issue of July 5th, and were it not for the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I think you may be amused by the following short essay on Joan of Arc. It was written by a little girl, and seems to me admirably...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your correspondent " Senex " objects to Psalm cix. on account of the imprecations in it. The explanation of the late Archbishop Benson...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is to be regretted that your correspondent should give further circulation to the guess that Sy? anage derives its name from a Dane...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR"] Ssn,—A correspondent in the Spectator of July 5th asks for examples of English palindromes. A very interesting collection is that in the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — You were so good in December 1911 as to allow to appear in your columns an appeal to old Haileyburians on behalf of the new Big School...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Mr. T. E. Sedgwick is hardly fair to Boards of Guardians in what he says under this heading. Emigration for the Poor Law child,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The numbers of the Spectator dealing with "The Honour of a Scout" reached us at our last port of call, St. Vincent, Cape - Verde...

AN INDIAN IDEALIST.* AMIDST the jumble of political shibboleths, mainly drawn from the vocabulary of extreme Radical sentimentalists, which Mr. Mallik supplies to his readers...

[TO THE ELITOE Or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The Boys' Brigade is this year celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, having been founded by Sir William A. Smith in 1883. It is the...

DOMINION. I WENT beneath the sunny sky When all things bowed to June's desire,— The pansy with its stedfast eye, The blue shells on the lupin spire, The swelling fruit along...

[Cheques should be addressed to the Spectator,1 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., and made payable to the Spectator and crossed "Barclay and Co., Gosling's Branch,...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," The Editor must not necessarily le held to te in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

FiLs de Saint Louis, tnontez an ciel !" For many years the fame of the Abbe Edgeworth rested on those words, sup. posed to have been spoken at the supreme moment when he stood...

THE papers of a private secretary may furnish the world with light on many curious and hidden things, but the odds are that they will not. The better the secretary the more...

THE first instalment of "The Nation's Library" promises well. :We have six volumes, written by authors who know their subjects well, of about two hundred and fifty pages and...

THE romance of the unfortunate lady whose life is the subject of this volume has long been a favourite theme of novelist and biographer, but the intrinsic interest of the story...

"Op making many books there is no end," says one of the most charming of all writers, who is old in date though he is very modern and fresh in his point of view. He had to deal,...

THE late F. W. H. Myers held that one of the great facts of the world was the " registration in the universe of every pest scene and thought." Modern thought is playing very...

MARY RUSSELL MITFORD, that "Prose Crabbe in the Sun" (to quote her friend Mrs. Browning's elaborate yet ingenuously felicitous phrase) is known to the present generation only as...

HERBERT BARING GARROD, the subject of this volume, was best known as the general secretary of the Teachers' Guild, a post which he occupied with conspicuous energy and success...

Paul and Co. 6a.)—The first impression of the readers of Mr. Marshall's former books on the Clintons will be that the Clinton twins, Nancy and Joan, have grown up and that this...

6s. net.)—In these collected papers Sir Herbert Tree shows no disposition to limit himself to his own special subject. On the contrary, he writes most amusingly upon many very...

Murray. 3s. 6d. net.)—We are glad to draw our readers' attention to a new edition of this striking collec- tion of the writings of a girl who met with an untimely death at the...

and Co. 6s.)—A story of crime chiefly connected with diamond mines. It would be unfair to Mr. Wallace to reveal the mystery of Amber, the ex- convict.—The Mind-Reader. By Max...

[Under this heading we Notice such Books of the week as hare not bun 'carted for renew in other forms.] Hampstead Heath : its Geology and Natural History. Pre- pared under the...

Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is the official book of reference of the Association of Head Mistresses, and has now reached its eighth year of publication.—The Holidays : Where to...

(Cambridge University Press. 3s. net.)—This is an essay by an assistant master at Winchester which we recommend with confidence to thoughtful readers, especially those who have...